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It will might lead some people to the doc who never watched it before.
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Probably, even though I donāt think itās exactly setting the box office on fire.
Oh, and did Kerr really shoot up Bas Rutten with opiates at the gym like that?!
I think itās very believable
That sucks but itās to be expected. Mark Kerr is a name only a small percentage of the population knows.
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Shit shouldnāt have cost $50 million.
Rock - $10 mil
Blunt - $5 mil
Kraft Services - $5 mil
You see $30 million on the screen?
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No doubt. What about that movie cost that much to make?
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Narcissism and Ego?
I bet A24 isnāt smelling what The Rock is cooking right about now.
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Well I hope Kerr, Bas, Bader and Usyk at least got a little $$. Iām also reading this was the lowest opening the Rock has ever had as a lead. Pretty unfortunate actually. The movie was a sports movie, but there were no triumphant sports moments. The MMA scenes were actually pretty unexciting. The coolest thing in the movie was Bas showing how to attack on the bag right before he went out of commission. In actuality it was a movie about a struggling addict in a dysfunctional relationship who happened to be a jock. But they just brushed the surface of almost everything.
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So this was supposed to be a showcase for the rocks acting and Ryan Bader stole the show LOL
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Kenny Rice voice over on vale tudo Japan opening scene was a nice touch.
I liked it. But Iām completely biased as I absolutely loved the doc 20+years ago.
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I liked it, my wife hated it and thought it was quite dull. I wanted to love it. I thought the score was awful to the point it was distracting at several points. Boxing is often associated with jazz but MMA? To me MMA is thrash metal.
To me, if you are an MMA old school geek you are going to like it. They did a lot of fan service in the movie including replicating the shitty pyramid sets they had in the Vale Tudo events. I was a little bummed that outside of Kerr and obviously Bas, & maybe Igor, no one else seemed true to form. Itās the problem with sports movies, itās hard to capture how incredible they are with actors pretending. Bader did a good job, but showed none of the insane intensity Coleman has at all times. Coleman and Fujita also looked small compared to this version of Kerr but actually they were both massive much like Kerr.
I also think you have to wonder if you werenāt an old fan which hardly anyone was back then, is the movie interesting enough to captivate you on the substance alone? If this was about a baseball player, would it still be an interesting watch? Iām not so sure.
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Iāve never heard thrash metal (or metal in general) played in a gym. Especially Jiu-jitsu gyms.
Lots of dub and reggae, Maybe thatās just California though?
Edit:
I can actually see the comparison to jazz in the fact that there is no right or wrong way to do it. Especially in the early days.
Think Anderson silva, he was able to ābreak the rulesā because he had mastered the basics. Like a great jazz musician. I may be adding shit that the filmmaker didnāt intend though.
The only good thing to come out of this is hopefully Kerr getting a huge sack of cash.
The rock is the gayest fag in fagtown.
Also hopefully his cunt wife is portrayed as the selfish, destructive, piece of shit whore she was in the original doc. The fact that they ended up together makes me think theyāll make her a sympathetic character.
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Iām pretty sure Face the Pain is technically nu metal.
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Would be funny if Bader somehow gets an Oscar or some other award nomination for this and Dwayne gets nothing
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This was really just a vehicle for Baderās acting career!
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Kerrās story isnāt that interesting. Lee Murray, Jens Pulver, Mark Coleman, Jacob Ortiz, Roger Huerta, etc. All have more interesting stories.